These thin noodles are used in kongguksu.
Very very thin! Make sure to buy the right ones so your kongguksu will be delicious.
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Korean cooking ingredients:
- Abalone
- Apple vinegar
- Asian chives
- Bamboo shoots
- Barley
- Barley malt powder
- Black bean paste
- Black sesame seeds
- Black sweet rice
- Buckwheat noodles
- Butternut squash
- Cinnamon
- Clams
- Corn syrup
- Cornish hen
- Crushed chili peppers
- Daikon radish
- Dill cucumber
- Dried anchovies
- Dried persimmons
- Edible chrysanthemum
- Eggplant
- Enoki mushrooms
- Fernbrake
- Fish cakes
- Fish sauce
- Fresh ginseng
- Frozen rice flour
- Garlic stems
- Ginger
- Green chili peppers
- Ground pork
- Hot pepper flakes
- Hot pepper paste
- Jja jjang myun noodles
- Jujubes
- Kelp
- Korean perilla leaves
- Korean radish
- Laver
- Mandu skins
- Mugwort powder
- mung bean jelly starch powder
- Mung beans
- Mustard powder
- Napa cabbage
- Oyster sauce
- Perilla seeds powder (deulkkae garu)
- Pickled radish
- Pine needles
- Pine nuts
- Pork belly
- Potato starch
- Red beans
- Red chili peppers
- Rice cake
- Roasted soy bean powder
- Roe
- Salted shrimp
- Sea plant (miyuk)
- Seafood medley
- Seaweed for samgak kimbap
- Sesame oil
- Sesame seeds
- Shiitake mushrooms
- Shredded red pepper
- Sliced rice cake
- Soft tofu
- Soy sauce
- Soybean paste
- Soybean sprouts
- Soybeans
- Squid
- Starch noodles
- Sweet potatoes
- Sweet rice
- Sweet rice flour
- Thin wheat flour noodles
- Tofu
- Turbinado sugar
- Water dropwort
- White oyster mushrooms
- Wood ear mushrooms
- Young summer radish
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With difficulty I deciphered the Korean letters (using an online hangul chart) on a random bag of noodles I bought at the Korean store: it says GUKSU SOMYEON. Can I use these only for Kongguksu like it says on this page or can I put them in Jajangmyun, Jam Pong, etc. as well? Because I don’t really like the idea of cold noodles (not to mention it’s winter here!).
Somyeon is my favorite noodles. I use it when I make noodle soup or bibimbguksu (mixed noodles with spicy seasoning).
To make tasty jjajangmyeon and jjampong, these noodles are usually used.
http://www.maangchi.com/ingredients/jja-jjang-myun-noodles
But who would care if you use the thin noodles in jjajangmyeon or jjampong? Try it out. Thank you for your question!